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Show SUPs Complete Annual Camp Election of new officers, presentation pre-sentation of life memberships , and plans for the development of a tourist center in Sail Lake City highlighted the activities of the encampment of the Sous of Utah Pioneers held in Cedar City over the week end. Meeting Saturday afternoon at Cedar breaks, the delegates approved ap-proved the nominating committee commit-tee recommendations and elected I Ernest R. McKay, Huntsville, to serve as president during the next year, replacing Fred E. Curtis, Cur-tis, Salt Lake City. The delegates also adopted a resolution to extend the number of vice presidents from three to five, to better represent all areas of the state. The one ticket presented pre-sented by the nominating commute com-mute was approved. This included: Richard A. Lambert, Salt Lake City, first vice president; Wallace Reid, Los Angeles, second vice president; Nicholas G. Morgan, Salt Lake City, third vice president; Horace Hor-ace A. Sorenscn, Salt Lake City, fourth vice president, and William Wil-liam II. Leigh, Cedar City, fifth vice president. At the banquet held by the group in the evening in El Es-valante Es-valante hotel, life memberships were presented and winners of the pioneer story contest were announced. Presented life memberships were J. J. Larsen, Logan; Sen. Wallace F. Bennett, Salt Lake City; John B. Fronk, Tremonton; Dr. Albert S. Barker and Wiley Barker, Kansas City; Thomas C. Jensen, and Frederick Eldredth, Salt Lake City, and Marion E. Allen, Allen Barker and Clark Siddoway, Ogden. Winners of the pioneer story contest were: Miss Marilyn Woolley, Salt Lake City, who received re-ceived the SUP gold medal; Maureen Mau-reen Hacking, Logan, second, who received the SUP silver medal; me-dal; Sylvia West, Salt Lake City, third, who received the SUP bronze medal; Bruce H. Robinson, Salt Lake City, fourth, and Cher-ie Cher-ie Nelson, Tooele, fifth. In addition to increasing the number of vice presidents, the delegates also voted to have pioneer pio-neer song contests become a part of the national encampments. Another resolution was approved to have delegates select the site of encampments beginning next year. The 1932 meeting will be set by the executive board, as has been done in the past. The caravan of SUP trekkers, which had made a tour of the southern Utah parks, arrived in Cedar City Friday night and members were housed in individual individ-ual homes. Saturday morning the group was taken on a tour of the iron mines and the old Irontown site, after which a box lunch was held at the Branch Agricultural college campus. Following Fol-lowing a program presented by the Parowan SUP chapter, the caravan traveled to Cedar Breaks for the annual meeting of the national organization. Church services were held for the group Sunday morning, after which the trekkers left for Salt Lake City, with stops being made at Parowan and Fillmore. |